Thank you to Governor O’Malley, Speaker Busch, President Miller, and the legislators who stood up and stopped the clock ticking towards the Doomsday Budget. Your leadership allows us to protect Maryland’s great schools, vital services, and excellent quality of life. Continue reading

More than fifty Maryland organizations representing hundreds of thousands of Marylanders and a broad cross-section of the state sent a letter today to Governor O’Malley, Senate President Miller, and House Speaker Busch today, urging them to quickly restore funding for the critical programs and services that would be cut if... Continue reading

This General Assembly session, legislators left some unfinished business, failing to pass a reconciling budget bill and a revenue package to help support our schools, law enforcement, libraries, higher education, and the services that we depend on every day. If legislators do not return to work to fix this omission,... Continue reading

Conferees from the Senate and House of Delegates are meeting now to determine the final shape of Maryland’s budget, including how much revenue will be raised to support the services that Marylanders depend on every day. Although both the Senate and House took important steps to raise revenues this year,... Continue reading

Families across the state have seen the impact of $7.5 billion in state budget cuts made during the last six years on the schools, public services, and health care that they depend on. On Monday, February 13, members of the Save Our State coalition delivered a memo to Governor O'Malley... Continue reading

We are a coalition of community, education, and labor groups working to restore long-term fiscal health to our state. We've seen Maryland endure more than $5 billion in state budget cuts over the last five years without significant new revenue. We have all shared sacrifices to weather the tough economy,... Continue reading

Thank you to the thousands of Marylanders who have joined our community conversations! Read our report on what Marylanders have been discussing at the community conversations held so far. Proposed cuts to the state and federal budget could mean an economic crisis in Maryland in 2012. There have been nearly... Continue reading

Thanks to the 15,000 people who came to the Rally to Keep the Promise to support education, working families, and retirement security. Continue >> Do you support the our public schools, public services, and middle class? The 2011 legislative session saw amazing activism from Maryland educators and public workers, but... Continue reading

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I know. You were not expecting to see a picture of KY Jelly on my blog. Me either! But the thing is, I have this eco-celeb friend named Stephanie Soechtig. She made the excellent film called Tapped, about bottled water. Anyway, Stephanie is traveling across the country the country with her f...